I was attacked earlier today with some really nasty tweets — just the angriest, most aggressive tone you could imagine.
So let me take a moment to respond directly to my accusers.
I realize that you can’t help yourself — that you’re always going to launch these kinds of personal attacks whenever you think somebody’s getting a bit too close to home. It’s just your instincts, and I’m trying not to take offense, but I do want to clear up some of the facts here.
First of all, I wasn’t the one who decided to build my nest barely three and a half feet off the ground in a lousy forsythia bush where anyone passing by trying to mow the lawn might inadvertently shake the branches and knock my little fledgling out of it. Ever hear of trees? They’re a lot taller and sturdier.
I will say this for that particular giant forsythia bush, though — it ain’t easy reaching all the way into the middle of it with a squirmy, fragile little package in your hands. Especially not — and this is my main point of contention with today’s twitter attacks — especially not with a couple of angrily shrieking adult gray catbirds dive-bombing you the whole time.
Anyway, now that everyone is safely back home, I hope we can just put this whole sordid incident behind us.
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I confess that I’ve never read the entire Apple end-user licensing agreement, even though I’ve clicked “I agree.”
But now, thanks to CNET and Richard Dreyfuss, I’ve at least listened to the whole thing. Brilliant.
“They Know But Won’t Admit: How Oil and Gas Companies Are Adapting to Climate Change”
… the very industry that publicly denies the very reality of climate change, is looking to climate experts for help. They cooperated with consultants who analyzed oil and gas industry’s ability to absorb impacts from a changing climate.
After decades of writing about climate change, and decades of watching the evidence pile up in support of all that he’s been saying, Bill McKibben is beginning to get a bit shrill.
He’s not going to get through to someone like Rick Santorum, but then probably nothing is going to get through to someone like Rick Santorum.
Dallas Willard on “how to get into heaven before you die”
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint uses more grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff …
“The conventions … of ‘reporting’ require pretending otherwise”
That’s considered crossing some bright line between reporting and opinionating when in fact what has been drawn is an unconscionable and indefensible line between reporting and the truth.
Some say that maybe it is a bad idea to base a political party’s ideology on a belief that altruism, democracy and Christianity are “evil.” Others say that maybe it is a bad idea to base a country’s policies on fictional novels rather than science and history. Still others say is it a bad idea for national leaders to think of most of the public as “parasites” while saying people with tons of cash are “producers” who should govern. …
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